422 Proceedings oftlie Mad. Lit. Society [No. 38, 



At a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Madras Lite* 

 vary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 held at the Club House, on Tuesday, the Wth December , 

 1849, at half past 6 o'clock, p. m. 



Present. 

 Chairman. 

 E. G. Balfoub, Esq. 



Members. 



Dr. J. Xellie, Lieut. Col. F. A. Reid, C. B., and 



J. Ouchterlony, Esq., Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary. 



Absent. 



Major P. Anstrtjtheb, C. B. Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart. 

 W. IT. Arbuthnot, Esq. Major T. T. Pears, C. B. 



Dr. T. Key, T. Pycboft, Esq. 



R. H. Williamson, Esq. 



Bead letter from the Acting Secretary to Government in the Re- 

 venue and Judicial Departments. 

 I. Resolved, — That this letter be recorded. 



No. 1131. 



From W. H. Bayley, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Fort St. 

 George. 



To Captain J. J. Losh, Secretary to the Madras Literary Society. 

 Revenue Department. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor in Council to 

 acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant and to inform 

 you in reply that the Government have already in store spare printed 

 copies of the. papers on the " Influence of Trees on Climate" by Doc- 

 tors Balfour and Smith and General Cullen, and that they therefore 

 do not require any separate copies of the same. 



Fobt St. Geobge, 1 (Signed) W. H. Bayley, 



27th November, 1849- -» Acting Secretary to Government. 



Read letter from E. G. Balfour, Esq. 

 To the Secretary M. L. S. and B. R. A. S. 

 Sir, 



I have the honor to request you to offer, for the Society's accept- 



